>>"Anthony" == Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
>> Horse puckey.
>>
>> This is a technical issue, and has nothing to do with the Social Contract.
Anthony> It is? It doesn't?
Anthony> ``I don't like the way people write programming languages in
Anthony> themselves. Now, sure, for gcc, we'll have to make an
Anthony> exception, but the rest of them can just get lost.'' doesn't
Anthony> sound particularly technical.
I am tempted to say, Horse puckey. I never say that gcc was
the only program that should qualify.But if you want to be
delibrately confrontational, bring it roght on. I can take statement
to the extreme with the best of them.
Anthony> So they can't be automatically built for new architectures. Big
Anthony> deal. That's no reason to get rid of them for everyone.
You must be imagining things. Who talked about throeing the
code out by default? I talked about having the package maintainers
ask for dispensation, to ensure that the package are not putting in
self dependencies for convenience.
It wouyld have been far easier for me to ask that latex2html
be installed in order to build the package, since I could just
use the installed latex2html to build the html docs.
Instread, I increased toe configurability of the script, and
added commandline/env var options for latex2html to look for the libs
in the source tree, so that it can buyild on a bare system.
Anthony> If you want a techincal discussion, work out how to automatically and
Anthony> reliably crosscompile stuff and actually *fix* the problem, rather than
Anthony> trying to hide the fact that it exists at all.
Actually, *YOU* are the one trying to brush the issue under
the carpet. *I* am the one asking that these packages be examined,
and registered if they can't easily get rid of the self dependency.
Brushing such potential security risks is a really bad idea,
and I am appaled that people are opposed to documenting these
packages in a well known place.
manoj
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